Attendance

Quiz

Lupton: 13 – 27 + 68 – 71

A Poster

Printing Presses

Illustrator Tutorial

Finish Illustrator tutorial from Tuesday. Add a descender to the /o/ to make it a lowercase /p/. Use Pathfinder palette to combine both paths into a single path.

Some more Illustrator basics:

• Color: Fill and Stroke
• Selection Tool: For whole objects
• Direct Selection Tool: Anchors, paths
• Rotate
• Text Tool (+ character palette, Type > Create Outline)
• See Resources section on website for some Pen How-Tos

InDesign Intro

Measurement of type (and publications) often relies on picas and points rather than inches or millimeters.

Basic settings and tools.

Baseline grid

Paragraph styles

• For this tutorial, our grid is going to be based on 6 points (to allow 6, 12, 18, 24 point spans).
• Create a Title style (including character aspects): 19/24 Helvetica Bold)
• Create a Kicker style (15/18 Helvetica Bold Italic)
• Create a Normal Paragraph style (10/12 Myriad Regular)

In New Document, 66p x 66p page (use picas as measurement), 2 columns, 6p margins

In Preferences > Grid, set your baseline grid at 6 points.

View > Show Baseline Grid

Click selection tool, then click frame. Object > Text Frame Options… Select “leading”.

If right text frame doesn’t lock to baseline grid, click it and repeat.

File > Package… Package. Use default settings. Name your project with “Baseline Grid YourLastName”.

Word As Image

(from the book by Ji Lee)

In groups of two or three, use Illustrator to create a word-image for these words:

• angry
• music
• football
• streetlight

Name the file “word image LastName1 LastName2 LastName3.ai” and upload it to the appropriate folder in Google Drive.

For Tuesday

Elam: Read Intro and Axial chapters (if you don’t have the book yet, I’ve scanned this reading and posted it to Google Drive). You don’t have to do any sketches yet—in class on Tuesday, we’ll explore how to do sketches of posters for the chapter.

Sketch one interesting logo in your notebook. (Don’t use the chisel pen–just use a pencil or regular pen.) Be prepared to talk about why you like it. Consider things like how well the logotype portrays the business/organization, use of type, color, etc.